The only Chief Executive to ever come from Georgia had this to say in a New York Times editorial last week:
(…) none of us wants to own an assault weapon, because we have no desire to kill policemen or go to a school or workplace to see how many victims we can accumulate before we are finally shot or take our own lives. That’s why the White House and Congress must not give up on trying to reinstate a ban on assault weapons, even if it may be politically difficult.
As much as I admire Mr. Carter for his humanitarian work, I really wish people would stop asking for his opinions on politics.
Of course, nobody knows the horrors of violence first-hand like Mr. Carter. Observe:
If he’d had an AMD-65 with a 50-round drum magazine, perhaps the oar wouldn’t have been necessary. To each his own, I suppose, but what kind of self-respecting Southern Baptist goes fishing without a gun?